Flip It ~ Pin It ~ App It Weekly #123

I had an idea after posting last week's Pin It Weekly: I use several different social media apps in my world of electronic gizmos and thought about changing Pin It Weekly to encourage readers to add links to any social media app that they use regularly.  

My DIY Flipboard magazine

I love Pinterest (but you know that); I use Flipboard almost every day (I HAVE to read daily); and I Facebook several times a week (especially to keep up with family).  So starting with this post, "Pin It Weekly" becomes "App It Weekly" (AIW).

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My reasoning is that you may use different apps that the rest of us don't know about.  That's no big surprise because there are so many apps available now.  I'm thinking that if everyone shares an app or two each week, we'll learn about new apps that are available, and if we visit some of them, we'll also learn a bit about what they can do. Isn't that a great way to help each other?  Wouldn't you love to learn about some of the really good apps that are available?  

My "funny, stuff" Pinterest board

So think about the apps you've been using lately, or regularly, and tell us about it.  All you have to do is click on the linky button and paste a copy of the url.  Double checking the link will insure that viewers can find your site, but that takes just a few seconds.  After that you're done!  

From my Bloglovin' feed

I can't wait to see which apps you are using and promise to visit everyone in the next few days.  If you have questions or need help, please email me at mary.marcotte@gmail.com.  I'll do what I can to assist you.

Welcome to the Flipboard app

Some time ago I discovered an app for my smart phone that I've come to love.  It seems only right that I share that info with you, but I wanted to make sure that my love was a bit more than puppy love.  Recommendations need to be long-lived.  So I continued to test and use it for several months.  I've come to use it in places I probably shouldn't (in the car on long trips, during meetings, even slipping it into the "reading room") pretty good indicators that I'm hooked.  

Flickr/Julie Jordan Scott

I love Flipboard for fast reading.  It was the first app I downloaded when I bought the new phone that I now have.  Flipboard bills itself as "YOUR PERSONAL MAGAZINE" and encourages users to "Find, follow and collect stories on all the topics you love." The app is free, and you choose the types of articles you are interested in reading.  I think of it as Pinterest for readers, and you know how hooked I am on that app.  Instead of collecting pictures, users collect blog, magazine, news and other articles of interest. 

Red Pepper Quilts

One of the ways that it's user friendly is that each article has three small icons that make it easy to save the article (plus sign), collect more articles (heart), or share the article (envelope). 

Although Flipboard  is fairly easy to use, I am still learning the tricks.  While writing this article, my research turned up the way to embed the magazines into a webpage.  How convenient is that? You can easily follow this or any of the magazines I've created.

Click here to view my Flipboard Quilting Magazine.

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That magazine has 28 articles but now that I realize that following a magazine and flipping articles into my magazine are two completely different actions, I'll flip articles into my magazines. That means that, like my Pinterest boards, my Flipboard mags will grow!  Of course, if you find articles that you think I'd like, please share them with me.  Then we can read and discuss articles of mutual interest.  What a great way to connect and learn, don't you think?